They will accept montages in our competitions - I won with one two years ago. Last year I put far too much on and agreed with the critique on that.
People can have a good guess who did any montages - or who entered a rat picture in the 'pets' class!
Other than cropping, levels and unsharp mask I don't normally do much to my images as I like them to reflect things as they are. One exception is that when doing the guest house where I stay a lot, I kept the lamp post and wires, which are fixtures, but cloned out the scaffolding for some temporary work on the chimney!
People can have a good guess who did any montages - or who entered a rat picture in the 'pets' class!
Other than cropping, levels and unsharp mask I don't normally do much to my images as I like them to reflect things as they are. One exception is that when doing the guest house where I stay a lot, I kept the lamp post and wires, which are fixtures, but cloned out the scaffolding for some temporary work on the chimney!